I just don't get it. It seems every (white/caucasian) girl is affiliated with a sorority. I hate hearing girls talk like this (actual conversation I overhear as I walk):
Girl 1: "something something something I think I may go to KAPPA PHI OMEGA* this weekend"
Girl 2: "Oh, you should come over to Alpha Kai*"
Girl 1: "yeah, but Alpha Kai it's like..they like force you to get drunk. I guess it depends what kind of night you want to have
*laughs*
girl 2: *laughs* "haha yeah"
*insert any two or three greek letters you want
Every (white) girl on campus seems to have a purse or t-shirt on or something with some sorority/frats logo. There is way too much of a frat/sorority culture for my tastes. When I had to do group work in my english class last semester, I was in a group with like 3 guys and 1 girl, and they all talked about their respective frats (don't think the girl was in a sorority, but she talked about it) and how "crazy" things were. When I had another really simple group project for my major's course, I went to the library to work on it with the and frat groupmate A talked with random people that came up to him and talked about how I guess frats were going to have a drinking competition (literally talked about the "A" team and "B" team, treating it as each frat having a varsity and junior varsity team lol).
I mean, I get that drinking with friends and such can be fun, but why does everyone talk about stupid "big" parties and getting drunk? Why do people talk about "man, I was drunk all weekend, it was great!". I overhear conversations like this all day, and I just don't get it. On facebook, some of the girls I considered myself friends with in high school who were good students/responsible people post similar (less extreme though) sentiments. I don't want to see people make generic facebook status A then have random girl B say "heyy, let's do shotsss sometime!". If you want to drink, just drink and have fun, but why go around acting like that over facebook? Or have the mentality that it's something to brag about?
Why does college seem to make so many people
want to brag about being some person that wants to go drink all the time. And I'm not talking about drinking with just friends, but going to some frat or sorority. People aren't saying "I got drunk with my friends", they put the emphasis to be "I got really wasted! WHOOOO".
There's just so much of a culture of "hey, they weekends are for funnnnnnn!", meaning something about some party or drinking. People are looked down upon if they just want to stay in, or heavens to bitsy do nerdy things like a LAN party--even if it is with friends in a social setting. Even when I was a freshman, at orientation the peer leaders (undergrad students that I guess are supposed to introduce new freshman to university during the orientation/bond/answer questions) verbally said things like "I couldn't imagine how people survive if they come here and just work all week and not go out [meaning not just hang out with a couple friends but "party"] on the weekends".
On the issue of girls doing this, it's not particularly a huge volume I know, but there were girls that in high school seemed to be the exact opposite of that mentality I was friends with and now seem to be acting like that. People were 18 at end of high school for the most part, now they are 19 in university/wherever. Why do they feel obligated to apparently make a significant change in their mentalities over just a year?
Whenever I'm just in the library waiting for my next class, or even in class, people just talk like this. Not only do I not meet any girls, but so many seem like I wouldn't want to meet them/would share nothing in common.